From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2007 #269 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, July 15 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 269 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- NJC Plame outing [Andeemac2006 ] eddie reader us tour ["ron" ] St. Vincent - NJC [Joseph Palis ] njc I got runned over by the Truckers [Bob Muller ] Bill Moyers Journal NJC ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: njc I got runned over by the Truckers [waytoblue@comcast.net] Re: njc I got runned over by the Truckers ["Randy Remote" Subject: NJC Plame outing It is obvious to all that you are a G Bush / D Cheney supporter full stop and you would jump of a cliff to support these guys. Why I dont know ????. now did Gonzales lie did he " ehhee I dont seem to remember " 50 times ??? and Libby commited perjury didnt he now, or is Fizgerald "one of those nasty Liberal Judges" ??? Are you saying its ok to commit perjury at the Government level of Scooter Libby ( one of the Administrative top 5 people when he wss working for Dick Cheney) but its not excusible when a working class person does it ?????????? surly its the reverse, dont you think ??? What an insult to Fitzerald all of his work thrown in the Garbage can by G Bush, how must he feel !!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:35:19 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: eddie reader us tour for those who may be interested Eddi Reader Announces Tour in US! July 13, 2007 (Nashville) - It's been too long since Eddi Reader toured the US, but fans won't have to wait much longer. Reader and her band: Boo Hewerdine (guitar), John McCusker (fiddle and whistles) and Alan Kelly (accordion) will be making stops in the US this August including a special New York apperance at Joe's Pub. Reader recently completed the Mean Fiddler Fleadh Tour 2007 with Willie Nelson, Sharon Shannon and Damien Dempsey and a UK tour with her band in support of her new album Peacetime. Eddi Reader in the US: 08.09.07 Joe's Pub New York City, NY 08.11.07 Irish Connections Festival Boston, MA 08.14.07 Irish Fest Milwaukee, WI 08.16.07 Martyr's Chicago, IL Ron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:48:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: St. Vincent - NJC Anyone on the List digging Annie Clark a.k.a. St. Vincent? I first heard her via a good review of her debut album "Marry Me" from the New York Times. Then I read about her some more in allmusic.com. She was compared to Feist for their passionate love for sound imageries and old-fashioned vocals that veer towards torch singing. And she was said to have toured with Sufjan Stevens as part of his insect-dressed musicians. So in essence I must have seen Annie Clark already when Sufjan performed in Chapel Hill early last year. Imagine my surprise when I saw a poster around town announcing that she is performing at Local 506 -- a smoke-filled concert venue in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro crosswalk which I frequent. So last night, after watching a good movie (do catch "Golden Door" a.k.a. Nuovomondo -- very magical-surrealist-realist-mythical-____ (insert fave description)), I headed to Local 506 to catch the late show. And man, what a sonic experience! First of all, she looked like a cross between former Azure Ray member Maria Taylor and actress Annabella Sciorra, but she sounded closer to Nina Nastasia. She was dressed in something that's hard for me to describe without resorting to weird parallels. She had on some translucent black stockings/leggings and she wore this one-piece dress that kinda looks like a loose tubular shirt you wear when you go to sleep. It reminded me both of those 80s outfits of female singers with frizzy hair and with slightly futuristic accoutrements. The backing band features a drummer of such intensity that for some anachronistic reason, I thought I can see him wear a suit and morph into 1940s-era Gene Krupa! Then a violinist who chose to play more raga-type of stylings with a whiff of Paganini. A bassist is also at hand where he alternately plays keys, a very small maracas-type of instrument as designed by Tim Burton, and this instrument that has piano keys in it but one where you blow the side of, to have a mix of accordion sounds and organ. The guys were all dressed in white shirt and red pants serving as overalls (and looking like my waitstaff friends in my fave burrito resto called Bandidos). And what a concert to mount in a small venue! It is like chamber orchestra featuring classical music flourishes, extremely radical change in time signatures, frosty vocals singing ballads one associates Lee Wiley to be singing, and electronica and noise that just blends seamlessly. Sometimes I think St. Vincent learned from Scratch masters like GrandWizard Theodore because of the way she integrates those sounds to her music pallette. As I am not familiar with all the songs, I realized it is much better to experience it first on a live setting. After all wasn't it Aaron Copland who once said that live music's draw is its unpredictable element, so essential in keeping music truly alive but which dies with the second playing of a record. All the musicians that I have heard recently seems to coaslesce with St. Vincent's sound. And I may have to conjure their names just to approximate St. Vincent's music. She shares Leslie Feist's full-rounded and smoky vocals that are best heard luxuriating in the low notes, to Sufjan Stevens' almost orchestral approach to music, to Leah Callahan's Kurt Weill-esque arrangements to songs. But she can shriek like a banshee this side of Siouxsie Sioux and be like Over The Rhine's Karin Bergquist when lazily and attractively prolonging a tone. I think key to her music is how I get reminded of other musicians by a mere run of the notes, the sudden explosion of shoe-taps and how her seemingly fragile hands seem to go this way and that way in the electric guitar in an almost delicate manner like My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and make it sound like a killer riff that I heard from people as diverse as Jack Rose to Sharon Isbin. She may appear like she is an amalgam of all of these artists, but in summoning their music, she managed to win me over by not coming out like a copycat. Plus she lacks this studied facility that I have seen in other artists when wowing the audience. She thanked all of us for coming at least ten times that night and was almost unbelieving that she has now an audience and that her CD is being sold in "the ether and not at the back of my minivan". But the one thing that I noticed during that night is how the songs flow into another like songs in a disc that does not have formal ends and stops to usher the next song. While tuning her guitar, she would hum a tune as though singing to herself and the band picks it up right away. Almost no interruptions, except to say thanks to her cheering fans when the applause grew louder than she expected. And speaking of fans, the people inside the venue has 2/3 male, white and not seemingly college students. But as I am basing this observation from a quick profiling I learned (and desperately want to unlearn) in school, I may still get my demographics wrong. Her encore is a Billie Holiday-esque "What Me Worry?" -- alone onstage with her beautiful if fragile self and her guitar. If she comes to your town, do see her before she becomes hugely famous and will only be booked in larger venues. Her keen musicality, originality and humility are a rarity. Joseph in Chapel Hill np: xbxrx - Eighth War - --------------------------------- Dicouvrez une nouvelle fagon d'obtenir des riponses ` toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expiriences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Riponses. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: njc I got runned over by the Truckers I won't go into a lot of detail about the DBT show last night, mostly because I'm still recovering from not getting in until 2:30 AM, but it was spectacular. They got cranked up about 10:15 after an enjoyable warm up by Warm In The Wake. They started with a 30-minute all-acoustic set which was very nice but the PACKED house was definitely ready to rock, and once Patterson, Cooley, Shona and their new guitarist (who tore it up on electric & pedal steel) plugged in, there was no turning back. It was their typical 3-hour extravaganza, the crowd was really into it, the staff was making sure nobody lit up, which I really appreciated, and there was a minimum of cell phones waving in the air taking pics and making movies, also a good thing. Anyway, I wasn't going to post about the show but I see that the Truckers are going to be backing up the EXCELLENT Bettye LaVette on her new CD coming out in September. Bettye, as some of you will remember, brought down the Carnegie Hall crowd with her take on "Last Chance Lost", and her last CD was also wonderful. This release is coming out on the Anti- label, so that also bodes well as Anti- typically lets artists (like Tom Waits) follow their own vision. If you want to read more about it: http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=737823&sourceType=1 As for the Truckers themselves, their new one drops in January. Should be a nice way to get 2008 started. Bob NP: Victor Johnson, "Heavenly Eyes" (my personal fave on Parsonage Lane) PS: Alison, Cooley even dedicated one song to his "woman in SLC" - was he talking about you? - --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:09:20 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Bill Moyers Journal NJC A brilliant discussion on impeachment (45% of US citizens are in favor of this) & IMO, a must watch for all- Tough Talk on Impeachment http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:18:26 +0000 From: waytoblue@comcast.net Subject: Re: njc I got runned over by the Truckers > Bob > > NP: Victor Johnson, "Heavenly Eyes" (my personal fave on Parsonage Lane) > > That's good...as the words were written at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. And the music on Kay Ashley's backpacker guitar in Brooklyn. Victor ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:37:05 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: njc I got runned over by the Truckers Glad you got to rock out, Bob. Like Neil Young says: "Live music is better, bumper stickers should be issued!" ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2007 #269 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------